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Battle of Memories

Original title: Ji yi da shi
  • 2017
  • 1h 59m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
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Battle of Memories (2017)
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After undergoing a procedure to erase his memories, a successful author begins having unexplained recollections relating to a series of unsolved murders.After undergoing a procedure to erase his memories, a successful author begins having unexplained recollections relating to a series of unsolved murders.After undergoing a procedure to erase his memories, a successful author begins having unexplained recollections relating to a series of unsolved murders.

  • Director
    • Leste Chen
  • Writers
    • Leste Chen
    • Peng Ren
  • Stars
    • Huang Bo
    • Yihong Duan
    • Jinglei Xu
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    6.4/10
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    • Director
      • Leste Chen
    • Writers
      • Leste Chen
      • Peng Ren
    • Stars
      • Huang Bo
      • Yihong Duan
      • Jinglei Xu
    • 20User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 7 nominations total

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    Huang Bo
    Huang Bo
    • Jiang Feng
    Yihong Duan
    Yihong Duan
    • Shen Hanqiang
    Jinglei Xu
    Jinglei Xu
    • Zhang Daichen
    Zishan Yang
    Zishan Yang
    • Chen Shanshan
    Patricio Antonio Liang
    • Lei Zi
    Wei-Ning Hsu
    Wei-Ning Hsu
    • Shen Hanqiang's Mother
    Zhener Wang
    • Li Huilan
    Gang Jiao
    Gang Jiao
    • Li Hang
    Nianhua Zhang
    • Shen Hanqiang's Father
    Hanmeng Du
    • Li Xiaoyun
    Ming Hu
    Ming Hu
    • The Thief
    Yuanhui Luan
    • Doctor Wu
    Yingrui Cao
    • Shen Hanqiang (Boyhood)
    Yufang Wu
    Yufang Wu
    • Jiang Feng's Mother
    Kaidi Yang
    • Nurse
    Wei Xu
    Wei Xu
    • Nurse
    Ye Gao
    • Woman in the Centre
    Chuyi Zheng
    • Suicidal Man
    • Director
      • Leste Chen
    • Writers
      • Leste Chen
      • Peng Ren
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    7Fella_shibby

    Decent thriller.

    Saw this recently on a DVD. A decent serial killer film with a dash of sci fiction.The film is about this new technology where one can remove unwanted memories at a cost. This new procedure is not approved by majority of the nations. Our lead character who is on the verge of divorce, goes to center to remove his memories of his marital life n he succeeds. At the center, a commotion n shootout happens n our guy drops his deleted memories which is in some box. No prize for guessing what happens next as it is already mentioned in the synopsis. Later the wife tells our lead to get back his memories before she signs the divorce papers as she wants to tell something important. The guy goes back n retrieves his memories but as it was quite predictable during the shootout, our guy's memories have been swiped. He now has the memories of a serial killer inside his brain. He is later put into a lock up (the same glass one from Silence of the lambs where Hopkins was put) for assaulting the director of the center blaming him for the wrong memories n not realizing that it got swiped during the commotion. Now the killer has our guy's memories n our guy is worried that his wife is in danger. Our guy is helped by a cop n his junior to track down the killer before its too late. The acting n direction was decent. The movie moved at a decent pace except for some scenes in the lock up n during the middle. Don't expect a fast paced thriller. Our lead guy is not some ex military or ex government intelligence. Ther r no fast paced chases, shoot outs, fights, car chases. May find shades of Minority report, Total recall, Solace.
    7ZenPhim

    Battle of Memories starting from a special surgeries, was invented to help people store memories, or take away the entire memories that people don't want to remember.

    Hello, this week we meet in a movie of the ship. Really, don't like the Flower Language Category anymore, but do be invited should go. Watch the trailer at the Battle of Memories Zen found normal. But when the movies then that feeling from usual moved unusually quickly.

    Battle of Memories tells the story of a world and a country. There, the people can remove the unwanted memories to moderate emotions. And our main character is the price. A writer malfunction and break with his wife. In an un-mounted memory and the memory of it accidentally mix up memories of a criminal homicide. Everything starts here.

    While the dreamy half-awake, the room price always have memories with a number of people. Naturally these people he did not know. Especially as he saw him kill them. Battle of Memories began engaging and dramatic from here.

    Revolves around Bo Huang is the character as Duan Yihong (police are investigating the case). Extra role always stretch the kid in each of the details of the incident. Combined with her Style to find the killers.

    Review Battle of Memories Jinglei Xu's wife of His Style also makes the film more trouble section =)))).

    Zishan Yang is a staff nurse, suddenly became suspect!!!! Whether she does is killer???.

    Mystery woman: as if his wife Bo Huang made you a puppet then please this beautiful character do you tangle to 10!!! Why then you will clearly see the film.

    Article of movie special Battle of Memories is to make you panic. You will be disturbed by a lot of character at AC line jump. You'll have to really focus a bit long paragraph that also … but you understand what it says dry distortion. Your feelings will always suspense and drama. Battle of Memories from editorial excellence, filming, editing, sound. All are mixed together to create a film that Zen for 7.5 points. Fiction genre you like psychological, spiritual, soul or mental models should go see Battle of Memories. It's really worth a look.
    3spookyrat1

    Just a Bore!

    Battle of Memories is quite intriguing ... for the first 5 minutes. After that I'm afraid, it's all down hill. Constantly referencing a host of similar - themed, but better, earlier movies (Total Recall, Inception, Paycheck etc), it's major problem lies in its foundation plot line premise. In the future people can go to Memory Centres and undergo procedures to erase some of their memories ... subject to, we find out, a plethora of confusing, uninteresting qualifications, terms and conditions. Immediately the alert viewer is asking oneself who would bother then, if it's not a straight forward operation? Well apparently Jiang Feng would.

    He's a popular author whose wife, Zhang Daichen has decided to divorce him, for reasons (surprise, surprise!) that are never made clear. So not unreasonably then I suppose, he decides to have his memories of her deleted, a course of action that we suspect may be compromised by a critical incident occurring, just before he leaves the Centre. To add to his misfortune, on arriving home, Daichen suddenly announces she wants to postpone the divorce (for reasons not explained until the last 10 minutes of the film, in a ho hum twist dramatically better utilised in soap operas such as Days of Our Lives). And things don't get much better despite the inclusion of serial - killers, odd ball cops and copious black and white memory flashbacks (and for good measure, endless variations of same).

    Production standards are admittedly quite good, but overall tone of the film is just plain weird. It's not just the reams of clunky, awkward dialogue that characters are forced to spout (it can't all be blamed on poor sub - title translations.) But the tone of the film is constantly out of kilter. E. G. What's with episodes such as the Three Stooges like slapstick farce of the cops rolling down the stairs together, in a film supposed to be some sort of sci - fi thriller?

    For those who manage to stay the course of this dull mess of a film, they'll find Battle of Memories collapsing into a morass of blindingly stupid coincidences and who cares plot twists. Character motivations change directions like the wind to better suit the convenience of the story. The climactic revelation of the killer's identity is obvious, with the only benefit being we now know this banal movie will thankfully soon end.
    7mkw465

    Nice mixture of twists

    Clever use of plot twists. As with sixth sense, you watch it twice to check for clues missed on first viewing.
    7Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki

    Clever thriller

    Chinese/ Thai co-production about a man, going through a divorce, who has a procedure done which removes select memories from his mind. He later has the surgery reversed, to regain his lost memories, and finds his memory is now somehow linked with that of a killer, possibly a serial killer. A major problem is that he sees the memories the killer has * in first person *, so when he attempts to tell the local authorities, he becomes prime suspect in the double murder, and thrown into Hannibal Lector's plexiglass holding cell.

    The subject of memory has always fascinated me, as I am burdened with an eidetic memory, so this film's premise obviously intrigued me, the surgical removal of painful memories, pleasurable memories, unforgettable things, things best left forgotten, so I enjoyed this film, but found it to be uneven, and a bit overlong.

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      I Will Not Forget You
      Music, Arranged & Produced by Kubert Leung

      Lyrics by Francis Lee

      Performed by Sandy Lam

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    • Release date
      • April 28, 2017 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • China
      • Thailand
    • Language
      • Mandarin
    • Also known as
      • Chiếm Đoạt Ký Ức
    • Filming locations
      • Bangkok, Thailand
    • Production companies
      • Golden Cicada Films
      • Shanghai Universaljoy Pictures
      • Wanda Pictures
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    • Budget
      • $22,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $594,552
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $224,942
      • Apr 30, 2017
    • Gross worldwide
      • $43,892,362
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 59 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Atmos
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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